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    Complex history

    The reason I ask is that I can't find a complex endorsement anywhere and I can't imagine that got missed. Here is the sequence of events... 10/10/76. Private SEL check ride 1/26/77. 200 hp endorsement 9/23/78. MEL check ride 8/28/79. SEL and MEL commercial check ride 8/29/79...
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    Complex history

    What year did the FARs first require a complex endorsement?
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    Fly straight out

    "Wilco" is not what puts muscle behind the instruction...the FAR provides that. A controller, for all intents and purposes, does not need "wilco", "roger" or any other particular word. What we need is an acknowledgement. THAT is what seals the deal. At that point the pilot WILL comply or...
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    Fly straight out

    Read my past post. I said it has the same effect. That is.... 1. You acknowledge the instruction 2. FARs require that you comply with an acknowledged instruction tex
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    Fly straight out

    Read it again....7110.65... 2−4−3. PILOT ACKNOWLEDGMENT/READ BACK Ensure pilots acknowledge all Air Traffic Clearances and ATC Instructions. When a pilot reads back an Air Traffic Clearance or ATC Instruction: a. Ensure that items read back are correct. b. Ensure the read back of hold short...
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    Fly straight out

    While it may be a good practice to read back everything it is not true that controllers MUST get a verbatim read back for vectors and almost all altitudes (only alts given by controllers associated with charted procedures). It is true that the controller must CONFIRM (a controller requirement)...
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    Fly straight out

    I should mention that full read back of hold short clearances ARE required. Which included LAHSO which is a hold short instruction. From 7110.65... NOTE− 1. ATC Clearance/Instruction Read Back guidance for pilots in the AIM states: a. Although pilots should read back the “numbers,” unless...
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    Fly straight out

    Pilots are required to "acknowledge" all instructions. The is no requirement to read back instructions either in whole or in part. However ATC must ensure that any part that is read back is accurate. So if the controller says "turn right heading 280, intercept V83, then resume own navigation...
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    Fly straight out

    That is not correct phraseology by a long shot. ATC regs require proper phraseology with this exception...a controller may resort to simple plain English instructions to make himself understood in cases where standard phraseology doesn't get the job done. Should be "fly runway heading" or...
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    Descend at your Discretion

    Controllers sometimes say things as prompts when more direct phraseology would be more appropriate. You are correct. The controller left it COMPLETELY up to you by giving you pilot's discretion. There's two possible reasons he repeated himself. The first is that he may have thought you...
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    What are my IR ground test chances if I "skip" the HSI questions?

    As a controller cadre instructor I teach and adminster many ATC test. We have a requirement to make a 90% to pass. If it was up to me it would be 100%. And when I explain this to students I toss them several ATC manuals and ask them, "show me the 10% it's ok for you not to know.". I have the...
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    What causes stalls?

    Well, of course, as you say, when the critical AOA is exceeded. The quick answer is ANYTHING that results in the critical AOA being exceeded. More specifically, and generally speaking, the otherwise laminar flow across the wing becomes more and more disturbed until, at the CAOA, it can...
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    Feedback about being a pilot as a career

    Go to Walmart and buy 10 cases of Van Camps Pork n Beans along with 40 packages of hot dogs. Live on that for one month then come back and ask that question again. tex
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    Tips to CFI's?

    I wouldn't. That implies not that you want to reward good instruction but rather that good instruction deserves a monetary recognition. Let him increase his rates if that is the case. Or, you offer to pay him $75 per hour instead of $65 per hour for his services if you believe he is that...
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    RNAV approach question And my buddy does a good

    I always determine a VDP for those D&D approaches based on what the glide slope would be to arrive at that VDP point. That gives me a rate of descent "glide slope" so that I arrive at the VDP in a descent as if on a glide slope never getting below the MDA in the process of course. If I dont...
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    Question for ATC..

    7110.65 5-6-2 c. When vectoring or approving course deviations, assign an altitude to maintain when: 1. The vector or approved deviation is off an assigned procedure which contains altitude instructions, i.e., instrument approach, etc. 2. The previously issued clearance included crossing...
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    Mic double click

    No. Never. If correct adherence to rules matter. tex
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    Will ADSB help controllers end "type unknown"?

    If the FAA doesn't include it in future requirements for ES parameters it can use in house database corolation to match flight ID to type for datablock display. I'm not sure which way they intend to go. tex
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    Will ADSB help controllers end "type unknown"?

    Yeah. I should have been more clear. If type is unknown nothing should be said about the type but traffic will still be or should be issued. tex
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